13 Colonies

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island are all part of what colonies?

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

The Toleration Act of 1649 was created in Maryland for what purpose?

• To help colonists in Maryland make money

• For the protection of trade

• To protect slavery in the South

• For religious protect for the Catholics

What colony was created as a "religious experiment" by the Quakers?

• Maryland

• Virginia

• Pennsylvania

• Connecticut

Why did the New England colonies rely mostly on shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, fur trapping, and cutting lumber for economic wealth?

• They were too far inland to make money through trade

• The soil was too rich to build businesses on

• The soil was to rocky and poor and the winters to harsh to farm

• There were too many Native Americans on the land to build cities

A person who works for another person without being payed for a certain # of years is known as a ________________________.

• Indentured servant

• Slave

• Butler

• Chauffeur

Which of the following were part of the Southern colonies

• Florida

• Georgia

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

• Maryland

The first permanent English colony in America was ____________.

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• New York City

• Baltamore

The main reason colonists settled in the New England colonies was ___________________________________.

• To gain wealth

• To have a fresh start in the New World

• For religious freedom

• To gain new job skills and farm land

Southern colonies s relied on agriculture for economic wealth by growing crops that were easy to sell known as ______________.

• Bio-farming

• Cash crops

• Greenbacks

• Quick crops

What happened to the settlement of Roanoke?

• It was attacked

• It vanished one day

• No one knows for sure

• It was struck by disease